Ethnic constructs in antiquity : the role of power and tradition / editors Ton Derks & Nico Roymans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Derks, Ton.

Roymans, Nico.

Series:

Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 13.

Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A bold and original examination of the relationships between ethnicity and political power in the ancient world

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Ethnic expression on the Early Iron Age and early Archaic Greek mainland. Where should we be looking?; The Ionians in the Archaic period. Shifting identities in a changing world; From Athenian identity to European ethnicity - the cultural biography of the myth of Marathon; Multi-ethnicity and ethnic segregation in Hellenistic Babylon; The Galatians in the Roman Empire: historical tradition and ethnic identity in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor; Material culture and plural identity in early Roman Southern Italy

Foundation myths in Roman Palestine. Traditions and reworkingsEthnic discourses on the frontiers of Roman Africa; Cruptorix and his kind. Talking ethnicity on the middle ground; Hercules and the construction of a Batavian identity in the context of the Roman empire; Ethnic identity in the Roman frontier. The epigraphy of Batavi and other Lower Rhine tribes; Grave goods, ethnicity, and the rhetoric of burial rites in Late Antique Northern Gaul; The early-medieval use of ethnic names from classical antiquity. The case of the Frisians; Index of names and places; List of contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

CC BY-NC

ISBN:

9786612129360

9781282129368

1282129368

9789048507917

904850791X

OCLC:

391593170

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089640789